Health Awareness
Children's Health 2022
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Ultra-rare genetic disease often confused with cancer in children
FOP turns patients’ muscles and tendons into bone and is often misdiagnosed. Know the signs and how to get more information on this rare, disabling condition. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is one of the rarest, most disabling conditions known to medicine. With only 1,000 confirmed cases worldwide, the disease exhibits no ethnic, racial or gender...
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Why you shouldn’t just correct your child’s short-sightedness with glasses
A new parent-focused portal is launched to increase awareness of childhood myopia, what it really is and what you should be doing about it. Myopia (short-sightedness) affects one in three people in the UK; however, it is now twice as common as in the 1960s. Of the 5 billion people globally predicted to be myopic...
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Ensuring paediatric medicines are tailored to young people and children
Patient engagement is key. Young patients and their families involved in paediatric drug development contribute to faster and more efficient medicine development. Patient engagement in the process of drug development can lead to active collaboration between developers, researchers, clinicians and patients who come together and share their knowledge and expertise throughout a medicine’s lifecycle. This...
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Ensuring children with a rare disease are no longer left behind
There are over 300 million people living with a rare disease worldwide. Many rare diseases are present at birth, and an estimated 70% of rare genetic conditions start in childhood, making children a significant proportion of the global community of people living with a rare disease. Rare diseases are often chronic, progressive, life-threatening, and highly...
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Improving child health around the world through immunisation
Improving and expanding childhood vaccination against routine and new diseases is vital for our children’s health and global public health. Ever since the smallpox vaccine discovery over two centuries ago, vaccines have successfully worked to eradicate, eliminate or control many infectious diseases. Red alert for child health However, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
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Thousands of UK children and young people diagnosed with cancer every year
In the UK, 12 children and young people will be diagnosed with cancer every day with two of those young patients not surviving. Cancer is caused by genetic changes within a cell that divides and causes uncontrollable growth. Symptoms of childhood cancer can present in a variety of ways with the most common being sudden...
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How to take care of your children’s teeth
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed when caring for your child’s teeth. The good news is that a healthy smile is achievable for every child by following just a few, simple steps. Whether it’s their first tooth or first trip to the dentist, a child’s early experiences of looking after their mouth can be with them...
